Nouns denoting natural phenomena
- moderate gale
- wind moving 32-38 knots; 7 on the Beaufort scale
- electrical elastance
- the reciprocal of capacitance
- chromatic aberration
- an optical aberration in which the image has colored fringes
- placebo effect
- any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs
- heat wave
- a wave of unusually hot weather
- charge
- the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons
- paramagnetism
- materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed
- energy
- any source of usable power
- fresh breeze
- wind moving 19-24 knots; 5 on the Beaufort scale
- souther
- a wind from the south
- wester
- wind that blows from west to east
- warm front
- the front of an advancing mass of warmer air
- mechanical phenomenon
- a physical phenomenon associated with the equilibrium or motion of objects
- aurora australis
- the aurora of the southern hemisphere
- wind power
- power derived from the wind (as by windmills)
- byproduct
- a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence
- spherical aberration
- an optical aberration resulting in a distorted image
- electrostatic charge
- the electric charge at rest on the surface of an insulated body (which establishes and adjacent electrostatic field)
- death
- the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
- overpressure
- a transient air pressure greater than the surrounding atmospheric pressure
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